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Sewage effluent anyone?
Sorry but you don't have a choice. We take clean water from our springs and rivers, use it in our homes and industries (drink very little...
Jun 1, 2019
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Cricket Match 8th June
A fun day out raising awareness and some funds to support the WASP campaign. Swinbrook Cricket Club, alongside the Windrush. Opens 1230pm...
May 27, 2019
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Meeting Mr Dikler
Having passed through bustling Bourton on the Water and Birdland the river emerges into open countryside again. Here she passes the...
May 17, 2019
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Into town
Down below the cress beds where we left off and the woods below, the river takes on some tight curves for which the Windrush is renowned....
May 10, 2019
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Watercress treatment!
The Windrush rolls down from Naunton and although most of the ranunculus disappears, the invertebrate life is very good and turning over...
May 3, 2019
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Phosphate pollution
According to Earthwatch which runs the Thames Water Blitz coming up again this weekend, phosphate levels between 0.05 milligrammes per...
Apr 26, 2019
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Naunton Sewage Works
Moving down through the village the river skirts the back of a few houses and follows a course carved by man, many years ago, away from...
Apr 18, 2019
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The fish have arrived!
At last, even though we have walked along some good looking river and found good invertebrate life at the lower end of the food chain, we...
Apr 12, 2019
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How can this?
Handle this? So here we are at our first proper sewage treatment works. A very small one that serves the Guiting Power area but even here...
Apr 9, 2019
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First Sewage Outfall.
Down through the rest of Adam Henson's farm we found some lovely stretches of water and a wildlife haven. A riverfly survey gave very...
Apr 7, 2019
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